Trading is still dangerous (not a moan)

embryo

embryo
edit: excuse the ramble...

I just thought I would highlight the incident that just happened. I am not moaning about it at all, it was one of those things, but it will put things into perspective.

I was doing my regular trade run in my T9, 488 tons of Gallium onboard (approx 2mil cost rounded up). An NPC python interdicts me and I submit. Start running for it, however am mass locked so realise that this is useless. By the time I start dropping my cargo voluntarily I am down to 60% hull, my size 5 shields dropped in no time. I try to drop more cargo to appease the lunatic but no, it was not my day, BOOM!

So I managed to lose around 6mil in cargo and insurance. Oh well at least it doesn't happen that often.

Basically, I know that lots of people say that trading is OP but to lose 6mil in one go is about as bad as it gets unless you have been running below the rebuy cost (obviously if you are using a 500mil upgraded Anaconda the cost is higher still).

Please be assured I am not moaning and I am not saying that trading is anything other than the best way to make money, but it is also a really good way of losing lots of money too if you come across the wrong person in space.

Gotta go now and recoup my losses, should not take too long ;o)
 

Starnr

Starnr
The Galaxy has no heart that is why CMDR are rare and ELITE CMDR are even rarer. As a CMDR we should prepare for the worst and keep on trucking, I am now in a T6 and will graduate the a T7 this week, and yes I have won many and lost a few. I had to come back from a sidewinder to get to a parked T7 due to a bug in the game. But hey that is what it takes to be Elite> If we want easy we need to go somewhere else because ED is not it:)o7.
 

Yabba Addict

Yabba Addict
Next time jump to a different system, no mass lock. Trading ain't that dangerous if you know the tricks.

1. Fit point defence, these take out limpets and weigh literally nothing.

2. Interdiction submission is your friend, no damage, short cooldown.

3. If mass inhibited jump to a different system, no mass inhibition.

4. If it's a CMDR pirate, jump to the next system no matter what, they'll just follow you if you try and SC out. Also the frameshift wake scanner is broken as far as following CMDRs goes, they'll never catch up in time if they try and follow through warp.

Here endeth the lesson. :)
 

EddyRockSteady

EddyRockSteady
Yeah, people are very quick to moan and state that Trading is easy with zero risk. Who else but a trader stands to lose upwards of ten million credits every time something goes wrong? FD should level the playing field for one day only and let everyone pay a flat rate of ten million rebuy on every ship destroyed - that would be interesting :D
 

Monk

Monk
Yabba Addict said:
4. If it's a CMDR pirate, jump to the next system no matter what, they'll just follow you if you try and SC out. Also the frameshift wake scanner is broken as far as following CMDRs goes, they'll never catch up in time if they try and follow through warp.
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Good tips, however, a smart pirate will be able to figure out where you've jumped to without the need of a wake scanner. Just a matter of matching the target's vector, then scanning through the list of stars until the target star matches your target's vector...voila. I've used this method to track down pirates, actually, but it can be used the other way around :D
 

Fanta

Fanta
Noticed today as well, in my t7 232 tons, so no shields at all, elite eagle npc interdicted me, I submit to be able to run fast, but hehehe long time FSD Cool-down appear , lucky I know the trick maxed thrusters , power distributors and powerplant with fsd, so was able to turbo all the time, free flight on , so kept speed on 320, nps was not doing same so run to 5km distance quick from him and than keep distance till fsd cool-down is finished. Well my big suprise was submit to interdiction and get almost instant CD on FSD not working anymore . Forgot to say, I have no weapon on my transport to max distance jump.
 

Pyro Steel

Pyro Steel
EddyRockSteady said:
Yeah, people are very quick to moan and state that Trading is easy with zero risk. Who else but a trader stands to lose upwards of ten million credits every time something goes wrong? FD should level the playing field for one day only and let everyone pay a flat rate of ten million rebuy on every ship destroyed - that would be interesting :D
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Some of us upwards of 20 million loss. Hauling 5-7 million of cargo with a ship insurance cost that can go well over 10 million... yeah. No other profession has the risk of loosing 20 million creds in one go.
 
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